Five Mac tools in one app

See which app is making your Mac hot, loud or slow.

  • Find the app slowing your Mac
  • Clear space without losing files
  • Stop old apps starting with your Mac
  • Run the security checkup a pro would run
  • See which apps use the internet, camera and mic

Pay once. 14-day money-back.

Google Chrome is working your Mac hard. Close Google Chrome?

Safe to Quit’s window, a real screenshot: Google Chrome is working your Mac hard. Maxed out for 24 min and holding 4.9 GB. Close Google Chrome? Safe to quit, nothing is uploading. Keep it open, or Close Google Chrome. Below: your Mac is almost out of space, it is about 82°C inside, processor 58%, memory 15 of 16 GB, heat: hot.

Kept. It won’t ask about Google Chrome again today.

Sound familiar?

The things that go wrong on almost every Mac.

Real screenshots of the problems people search for most.

Slow, hot and loud

47 tabs later, the fans won’t stop.

Something is working your Mac flat out and you can’t tell what. Safe to Quit lists what’s busy in plain words, names the one causing it, and checks it’s safe to close before you do.

Closing works like choosing Quit yourself, so apps can ask you to save first.

Safe to Quit, a real screenshot of the busiest apps: Google Chrome first at 180 percent, then Zoom, Photos, Microsoft Teams, Dropbox and Creative Cloud.
Storage full

7 GB left. 91 GB you can clear safely.

Old downloads, an iPhone backup from two phones ago, an installer you ran once, apps you haven’t opened in a year. Safe to Quit adds it all up, biggest first, and you pick what goes.

Everything you pick goes to the Trash first, so you can put it back. macOS and Apple’s apps are never touched.

Safe to Quit’s Free Up Space page, a real screenshot: You can safely free 91 GB. 7 GB free of 256 GB. Large and old files 60 GB, unused apps 22 GB, app caches and Mail attachments 6.1 GB, each with a Review button.
Where did it all go?

See what’s filling your disk, folder by folder.

System Data, Photos, Downloads, iCloud: one map of the whole disk, biggest first. It only reads, so it’s safe to click around and finally see where 249 GB went.

Click any folder to look inside it. Nothing moves unless you choose it on the Free Up Space page.

Safe to Quit’s Where Did My Space Go page, a real screenshot: the whole disk as a list of places, biggest first, each with its size.
Starts on its own

You deleted TeamViewer. It still starts with your Mac.

Dragging an app to the Trash leaves its helpers behind, and some still launch every time you log in. Safe to Quit shows everything that starts with your Mac, flags the leftovers and removes them in one click.

Each item says which app it belongs to and what it does, in a sentence.

Safe to Quit’s Starts with Your Mac page, a real screenshot: 4 of 23 start-up items are worth a look. Adobe Creative Cloud runs after you quit. Adobe Genuine Service talks to the internet while idle. 2 leftovers from apps you removed, TeamViewer and AnyDesk, with Remove buttons.
Awake all night

Chrome kept it awake all night. The battery lost 39%.

A video tab or a download can keep a Mac awake for hours, running warm and draining the battery. Each morning Safe to Quit tells you whether your Mac slept, what kept it up and what it cost.

Turn it on and it can warn you at bedtime next time.

Safe to Quit’s Last Night card, a real screenshot: Google Chrome kept your Mac awake last night: it slept only 2 hours 28 minutes and lost about 39 percent of its battery.

New in 1.5

Is your Mac locked down? Most people never check.

Eight checks a security pro would run, in plain English, with one click to the right setting. It only reads, never changes anything.

$1.46 billionreported lost to tech-support scams in the US in 2024. Many begin with a stranger on a remote-access app. Safe to Quit flags TeamViewer and AnyDesk leftovers, sharing left on and open doors on your Wi-Fi.FBI Internet Crime Report 2024

A security checkup, scored out of 10

Disk encryption, updates, screen lock, firewall, sharing, remote-access leftovers and open doors. See what to fix, then open the right setting in one click.

Safe to Quit’s Security Checkup, a real screenshot: score 5.6 out of 10, 5 things to fix: FileVault is off, automatic updates are off, no password after sleep, Screen Sharing and AirPlay Receiver are on, and TeamViewer and AnyDesk left programs behind. 3 checks passed.

Who used your camera and mic

Every app that turned on your camera or microphone, when and for how long. Zoom at 2:14 AM? You’ll see it.

Safe to Quit’s Camera and Mic page, a real screenshot: 4 apps used your camera or mic today. Worth a look: Zoom used your microphone for 41 minutes, 2:14 AM to 2:55 AM. Also FaceTime, Photo Booth and Microsoft Teams.

Who’s on the internet

Which apps used the internet today and how much they sent, plus anything other devices on your Wi-Fi could reach.

Safe to Quit’s Internet Activity page, a real screenshot: apps that used the internet today with how much each sent and received, Dropbox first, then Chrome, Photos, Zoom and Spotify.

Not sure where to start? Check my Mac.

One button walks you through it all in about a minute: what’s slow, what you can clear, what starts on its own, how it slept and how safe it is.

Which one is safe to quit?

It tells you which apps you can close, and leaves the rest alone.

Click any app and it checks first: uploads, calls, the mic, unsaved work. Parts of macOS are never closed, so you can’t break anything.

It knows 369 parts of macOS by name and explains each one in a plain sentence.

Safe to Quit’s Open Apps page, real screenshots: clicking Zoom says better to wait a moment, it’s using the microphone. Clicking Microsoft Teams says yes, safe to quit: nothing uploading, not keeping your Mac awake, and if anything is unsaved it will ask you first.

Never force quits

Closing works exactly like choosing Quit yourself. Apps get to ask you to save your work.

Leaves macOS alone

Parts of macOS are explained, never closed. Nothing of yours is deleted: files you choose go to the Trash.

Stays on your Mac

Nothing about your Mac is sent anywhere. The only thing it asks the internet is whether a newer version exists.

No account, no subscription

Pay once and it’s yours. No sign-up, no login, no monthly bill.

The rest of the time

Quiet until it matters.

Under 1% of your Mac’s power

It checks quietly every few seconds, and the download is about 4 MB.

It learns what’s normal

It learns each of your apps, so a video app that’s always busy won’t nag you.

At most 3 nudges a day

Turn on notifications and it asks the same yes or no question in a normal Mac notification. Never between 10 PM and 8 AM.

Pricing

Pay once. It’s yours for good.

No subscription and no account. Every update is free.

Until November 30

1 Mac

$49
$29
one time,
yours to keep

$29 until November 30. Then it’s $49.

  • The full app, no features held back
  • Free updates, offered right in the app
  • Download link by email, right after you pay
  • Signed and checked by Apple, installs in one drag

3 Macs

$49
one time,
yours to keep

For the family, or your desk and laptop.

Everything in the 1 Mac tag, on three Macs.

10 Macs

$99
one time,
yours to keep

For a small team.

Everything in the 1 Mac tag, on ten Macs.

Secure checkout by Stripe. 14-day refund, no questions: one button, straight back to your card.

Questions

Do I need to know anything technical?

No. That’s the whole point. You never see words like “process” or “CPU”. It says things like “Google Chrome is working your Mac hard” and gives you two buttons.

Could it break something?

No. It only ever asks apps to quit the normal way, the same as choosing Quit from the app’s menu, and only after you say yes. It never force quits, never touches parts of macOS, and never deletes anything on its own. When you want space back, you pick the files and they go to the Trash, so you can put them back.

Is it an antivirus?

No, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It doesn’t scan your files. It checks the settings that keep strangers out, checks that macOS’s own protection is switched on, and shows what starts with your Mac and which apps use your camera, mic and internet, so anything odd stands out.

Will it slow my Mac down?

It uses under 1% of your Mac’s power while it watches. It’s a small native Mac app, about 4 MB to download.

Which Macs does it work on?

Macs with macOS 13 Ventura or later, with Apple silicon or Intel. On most Apple silicon Macs it also shows the temperature. Where a Mac doesn’t share that, it still warns you when your Mac is hot, using macOS’s own heat signal.

Does it send my data anywhere?

No. Everything it notices stays on your Mac. Up to twice a day it checks safetoquit.com for a newer version, and that request carries nothing about you or your Mac. You can turn that off in Settings.

How do I get it after I pay?

You’ll see a download button straight away, and the same link arrives by email. Open the file, drag Safe to Quit into Applications, and open it. Its window opens, and a small icon stays in your menu bar at the top right. Lost the email? Get your link again.

What if it doesn’t help me?

Get a full refund within 14 days on the refund page. Enter the email you bought with, press the button in the email we send, and the money goes straight back to your card. No questions asked.

Stop guessing what’s wrong with your Mac.

Next time it’s hot, slow, full or acting strange, the answer is one click away.